Category Archives: Agriculture

New EPA Regulations Will Harm Virginia

New EPA regulations expected to be made final this summer will result in higher electric bills and a loss of 38,000 jobs here in Virginia. That’s the conclusion of a new study released by the Thomas Jefferson Institute and researched … Continue reading

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The War Against DDT is Lethal to Third World Countries

The terms racism, white supremacy, crimes against humanity are bandied about so often that they have become almost meaningless. But they are absolutely appropriate in an arena where they are too rarely applied: radical environmentalism’s campaigns that perpetuate poverty, disease … Continue reading

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Courts Horse Whip USDA

Soring of horses is a terrible practice! Soring is the use of chemicals to cause pain in a horse’s feet when they touch the ground, resulting in the horse picking its feet up quickly. Even so, the U.S. Court of Appeals … Continue reading

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More EPA Regulation of Ammonia?

In late January six environmental groups filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia claiming that EPA violated their rights by not responding to a 2011 petition to regulate ammonia as a pollutant under the Clean Air … Continue reading

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Blockbuster Defeat For Agriculture

On Jan. 14, 2015, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that dairy manure is a “solid waste,” like garbage, under EPA’s Resource Conservation Recovery Act. The judge said conditions existed at the Washington State Cow Palace dairy which may cause … Continue reading

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